The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-16
ALI Over Kansas.

I'LL OVSA AASSAASss'1s
A circus is required to pay 500
license to show at Salina.
OF the forty wells bored at Fort Scott
only IL are producing gas.
More Kansas people made Eur opean
trips this year than ever before.
Wagon loads of potatoes, averaging
two pounds apiece, are being brought
into Garden City. They are from the
irrigated farms.
There are four daily and nineteen
weekly newspapers published in To-
peka; also one quarterly and four
monthly publications. total OF twen-
ty-eight papers.
The Ottawa Local Ne,Us says that
of 600 cyclones marked OH the govern
ment map as occurring between the
wears 1885 and 1887, only fourteen Oc-
Cured IN Kansas.
A vein of rock salt ofthe purest kind
over one hundred and forty feet In
thickness, has been found at Ellsworth.
Kansas is the salt of the earth as well
as the garden spot.
Among Old Settlers Meetings and
army reunions, county fairs and polit'
ical conventions the people of Kansas
have ample opportunities to become
pretty we'll acquainted.
Mayor Hackney has resigned the
chief magistracy of Winfield, remark
ing that those from whom he had a
right to expect support had failed him,
and now they might so to--here the
wires failed.
| According to the assessors returns,
the negroes who came from the South
ern States and settled in northwestern
Kansas now own 100000 acres of land
valued ut 81, o25 600, and personal prop
erty valued at 1865 200.
The Parkinson sugar works of Fort
Scott is turning out $1,000 pounds o
sorghum sugar per day valued at 5000
Its quality is very excellent ligh
brown G. This is the most successful
production of sorghum sugar known
The Kansas Odd Fellows will.expent
about $1,000 in entertaining ths
Sovereign grand lodge and its escort
passing through the State on theil
way to the Denver conclave. Tit
grand lodge will arrive at Topeka from
Chicago September Is.
Kansas Is the great growing State oil
the Union. Since 1850 its population
has increased from $50, 900 to l GOO, 900
it's 5000 miles of railroad have become
6, 600; its 5000 schools have grown t.
6, 900, and its personal property from
$3.50, COO, 600 to 300, 0OO, 600.
Kinsley is to have packing house
with capacity for slaughtering ant
packing 1000 beeves a'day, and viii
employ $50 operatives at the start
Work has begun on the paper an(
paper box factory, which will give
employment to as many more people
A number of old citizens of Kansas
living in the bottom near Atchison
have been cut off from this state and
thrown ON the other side of the chan
mel by the ravages Of the Missouri. and
they are just now wondering which
State, ifeither, they can vote in.
EDorddo Republican: w. A.Best
of Lincoln township, informs us tina,
he set out about one-sixth of an acre O
tomato plants. He has sold off the
patch S:I3 worth, has used them fol
canning, etc. and still has tomatoes
enough left to supply the county. HI
thinks it pays to raise them.
The Wichita Bacon says the opers
house, whose unfinished walls collapsed
. few days ago. will not be rebuilt
UNLESS stock company can be organ.
lied for the purpose. The capital O
the present owner seems mainly to be
lin real estate, and the Beacon Gays II
ID next to impossible to borrow money
ION feal estate.